Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
Title Details
Pages: 432
Illustrations: 286 color and 18 b&w photos
Trim size: 10.000in x 12.000in
Formats
Hardcover
Pub Date: 09/01/2016
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4935-0
List Price: $51.95
Subsidies and Partnerships
Published in association with Georgia Humanities
Published with the generous support of Kenneth Coleman Fund
Related Subjects
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious
ARCHITECTURE / Historic Preservation / General
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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• Visit the Historical Rural Churches of Georgia companion site
Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
Some of Georgia’s earliest churches offer unique insights into the state’s past
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Aspects of Georgia’s unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early structures ranged from primitive outbuildings to those with more elaborate designs and were constructed with local, hand-hewn materials to serve the residents who lived nearby. From these rural communities sprang the villages, towns, counties, and cities that informed the way Georgia was organized and governed and that continue to influence the way we live today.
Historic Rural Churches of Georgia presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of the state. Nearly three hundred stunning color photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries. Of the historic churches that have survived, many are now in various states of distress and neglect and require restoration to ensure that they will continue to stand. This book is a project of the Historic Rural Churches of Georgia organization, whose mission is the preservation of historic rural churches across the state and the documentation of their history since their founding. If proper care is taken, these endangered and important landmarks can continue to represent the state’s earliest examples of rural sacred architecture and the communities and traditions they housed.
—Dan Roper, editor, Georgia Backroads Magazine
—W. Todd Groce, president and CEO, Georgia Historical Society, author of Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870
—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Drifting into Darien
—President Jimmy Carter
—Pete McCommons, Flagpole
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Georgia Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities
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Mary Ellen LoPresti Award, Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries, Society of North America
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Sims Bray Award, Society of Colonial Wars
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Award for Excellence in Research, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council